Does this include Novavax or are they just pulling mRNA COVID vaccines?
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Does this include Novavax or are they just pulling mRNA COVID vaccines?
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer: "Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
Hi Angry, do you have any good book recommendations. I'm in need of news diversions!
RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.
Maybe Miller it was Miller that really gave Musk that black eye, not X???
To be clear: Assaulting police officers and destroying property on January 6? Totally fine. Pardon them all. Showing up at an ICE Facility to demand due process? Criminal. The Republican Party is irrevocably broken. Vote all these idiots out.
⚠️ The CDC's HICPAC website has been archived. I heard from colleagues today HICPAC would be disbanded. #IDSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
#publichealth USDA has withdrawn a proposed rule aimed at reducing #Salmonella infection linked to raw poultry products. The withdrawal of the Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products (proposed by previous admini in aug 2024 post by FSIS @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...
Bad news for the Novavax COVID vaccine: FDA wants Novavax "...to show its vaccine is effective w/ another randomized study after appointees under (HHS Sec. RFK Jr.) intervened in the approval process... The additional step goes beyond what other Covid-19 vaccine makers had to do to win approval..."🛟
Just a reminder: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks formal education or professional credentials in critical scientific fields such as biology, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, immunology, virology, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, or medicine.
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
Terrifying News: A hepatitis C outbreak strikes Florida, and the U.S. government shuts down the only CDC lab capable of testing the samples. This isn’t a mistake it’s political negligence putting lives at risk. We need leaders who act now and prioritize health. We need accountability and answers.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
BREAKING: FDA Planning to End Routine Food Safety Inspections, Sources Reveal Federal officials say the move is still under discussion and may require congressional approval to implement fully.
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
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I have a passport, but my last name doesn't match my birth certificate. Was wondering if that will be accepted or if my passport will have to be changed back to my maiden name? These are strange times...
Thoughts on Trump's "it's a great time to buy," post and stock market manipulation?
Really, have to get SSA comm announcements on X now???
Do you think the SAVE Act has any chance of passing the Senate? Trying to figure out if I have to change my IDs back to my maiden name?
A sudden $30–40B cut in U.S. global health aid has left a vacuum no one’s able to fill. Philanthropies, Europe, and China are stepping in, but the scale of need far exceeds their reach. 🩺🛟
Funding cuts to US vax pipeline; mucosal Covid vaxes advance globally: - Inhaled vax in phase 2 in Canada - Human challenge trial in Singapore - Trial results for intranasal vax in kids in China & more in my latest nextgen Covid vax update online @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/03/31/m...
Will Rubio resign after today's Oval fiasco?
No AP or Reuters allowed, but TASS was permitted in the Oval...things are getting more absurd every day.
Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.
It is very easy to see whether these pts have spike persistence from the vaccine or from an undiagnosed infection: do mass spec/proteomics on the antigens of pts: if all pts have the same signature which is the same as the one in the vaxx, you answered the question unequivocally
Good. Thank you President Sheinbaum.
🚨🚨🚨 Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday. www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/a...
Vaccinate your children! I have seen children suffer from measles and I would never want another family to watch a child suffer that way.
RFK Jr wasted no time in bringing a wrecking ball to US public health & health research, just as everyone knew he would
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
Nearly half of the CDC’s epidemiologists were dismissed despite growing bird flu concerns. The cuts, affecting around 1,300 CDC employees, align with Health Secretary RFK Jr.'s push to overhaul health agencies and shift focus away from infectious disease research. uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-admin-...
Discontinuing a program before establishing an alternative is a worrying approach. The U.S. administration declares an end to support for schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates—while only now directing the Secretary of Education to develop a replacement plan. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
BREAKING: Nurse in Uganda’s capital tests positive for Ebola, health ministry says. The 32-year-old man went to multiple hospitals before being tested. It’s unknown how he got infected.
Weekly U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 172,771 est. - Admissions: 12,094 (-8%) - In hospital: 10,648 (-4%) - In ICU: 1,471 (-12%) - New deaths: 852 - Average: 903 (+13%)
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.
Did you know HHS already focuses on how food and nutrition affect your health? odphp.health.gov/our-work/nut...
RFK Jr is a zealot. His zeal may be attractive to those who share his views, but by definition it means he is uncompromising, cherry picking, and dismissive of good data and science that is contrary to his views. That’s not someone you put in charge of a scientific agency.
The most important questions so far have come from Bill Cassidy and Mark Warner on the way we deliver healthcare to folks at HHS though Medicare, Medicaid and Federally Qualified Health Centers. It is also clear that RFK has no idea how those programs operate.
Chronic disease is devastating America. And RFK Jr has no idea what the job of HHS Secretary is- and he has no interest in the daily rigor of the job. He is a rubber stamp the Project 2025 healthcare agenda. Time to read it. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
When I was at HHS I had to sell almost all my stocks including Meta and Apple because of the appearance of a conflict. But RFK will continue to get paid millions in referral fees for lawsuits against entities HHS regulates. Make it make sense.
Life in a Dictatorship: He just ended funding for clinical trials that are often the last hope for cancer patients whose regular therapies aren't working. #cansky #medsky #oncsky www.oncology-central.com/what-do-trum...
As doctors and nurses, it is our moral duty to care for every person who walks through the door & needs medical help. Allowing ICE to raid hospitals & clinics is immoral and will lead to needless suffering & death. Reading this made me cry...what nation have we become? #medsky
@edmarkey.bsky.social GOP has a proposal to eliminate non-profit hospitals - please vote against it. We need to protect non-profit status to protect healthcare and patient safety. bsky.app/profile/wyde...
I'm so sorry that's happening to you. It's hard to do things that you used to enjoy when you aren't feeling well. I'll help you research to see if there are long covid clinics in FW. On this site, if you search long covid or long covid support, you can follow people experiencing the same as you.
That's a perfect post coming from you! Have a brew-tiful day and your caffeine levels up :)
TYVM!
I would like to be added to!
From skydiving to Long COVID, humans struggle to understand and assess risk effectively. In this article, @arijitchakrav (twitter handle) and I use the simple analogy of coin tosses to make comparing and understanding risks more intuitive. www.peertopublic.com/posts/theres...
About half of the country did not want to go back. This photo is instantly iconic, isn’t it? Prophetic?
Apparently written outside Trump Tower -
Here's our final Christmas Day forecast. If nobody is testing/isolating... 🔹1 in 8 chance of an exposure in a family gathering of 10 people 🔹1 in 3 chance of exposure in a restaurant near 30 people 🔹3 out of 4 chance on a plane of >100 people
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LBD is an absolute beast. all my love to all who suffer because of it and those alongside them.
Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
Qualifications for RFK Jr to be HHS Secretary
Shoutout to all the rank-and-file public health workers who have been dealing with endless harassment and political inference for years. Thank you for all you do to save lives each and every day despite the impossible circumstances ❤️
I can't emphasize enough how dangerous it is that Louisiana health officials are stopping staff from promoting vaccines at the very same time that the first severe case of US bird flu was found in the same state.
Thank you for your leadership, Sen. Schiff.
@michael-hoerger.bsky.social would be a great addition to this starter pack.
Map of U.S. Covid transmission, per CDC data. Bear in mind that reporting lags mean transmission has had 7 days to get worse. Approximately 1 in 64 Americans are now actively infectious. 💉💪😷
PMC COVID-19 Dashboard, Dec 16, 2024 🔹1 in 64 (1.6%) actively infectious in the U.S. 🔹750,000 new daily infections and rising 🔹Highest % increase in transmission in nearly 3 years 🔹10th wave is the "silent surge," coming on late out of nowhere Video + thread summary: x.com/michael_hoer...
Anti-vaxxers love to pretend they are not anti-vaxxers by claiming that they are just “asking questions.” Don’t be fooled. Casting doubt about rigorous peer reviewed science doesn’t mean you are just “asking questions,” it means you are a conspiracy theorist.
Polio is not something I'd like to mess around with. Here is a gift link to NYT article on polio vaccine -> www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... #IDsky #medsky
Tie between We Built This City - Starship or Can't Fight This Feeing - REO Speedwagn.
What's happening with Killer T cells? Why aren't they clearing the reservoir. Here's evidence that spike specific killer T cells stay persistently activated in pwLC compared to recovered controls.
Predicting clotting events in 49 of 53 people with Covid! An immunosensor that rapidly detects 4 different protein biomarkers science.org/doi/10.1126/...
You wanted a reality show host as a president, well now you’re on Survivor.
75+ Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.
Dr. Vinay Prasad is out there defending UnitedHealthcare, denying that it denies claims for profit, and calling for masks to be illegal in the wake of the killing of its CEO. Incidentally, he cited consulting fees from UHC as a conflict of interest on a January 2023 paper.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya often says he *would have* opened schools and protected the vulnerable. Fortunately, we can examine the real world record he left in Florida.
This is why now is an especially bad time to be treating RFK Jr.- and doctors who cheer for him- as normal and rational in any way. They are not. They are dangerous. It’s not time for “debate”. It’s time to raise the alarm, though it’s probably too late.
How to make America healthier: ✅ Increase safety regulations ✅ Improve vaccine/treatment access ✅ Bolster public health interventions ✅ Medicare for all Trump/RFK want to deregulate, restrict vaccines, dismantle public health, end ACA — the complete opposite of what we need.
This, from @asharangappa.bsky.social, is one of the most salient points abt Kash Patel as FBI Director. There's no legislative charter for it. All the rules they're supposed to follow, which Patel has pretended to care about, could be trashed on a whim. asharangappa.substack.com/p/how-bad-co...
The TLDR: The newer strains of H5N1 have a higher propensity to be airborne compared to prior ones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After a fairly fraught week I just want to take a moment to take a moment to say that IMO violence and the taking of a human life is almost always morally wrong. However, I think there is also a message that everyone should hear: 1/
Hi, oh I'd love to be in Ireland right now, but I'm in the US. We were both part of the Jette's messaging group.
In other words, he’s going to use NIH funding to carve out more space at colleges and universities for right-wing junk science at the expense of legitimate scientific pursuits. This guy is every bit as dangerous as Robert Kennedy Jr. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
In 2021, COVID was shown to be fully airborne. Yet for years, hospitals have failed to upgrade infection control measures. Bodies like the WHO and CDC are leaving HCW and patients in danger by failing to match recommendations to the science. My latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/cdc-infect...
It is utterly *essential* that reporters + influencers, podcasters & other new-mainstream media content producers accurately convey #RFK Jr.'s beliefs about #vaccines. Coverage of his #anti-vaccine advocacy must be continuous up to & thru confirmation hearings. healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...
Today, the WHO reported 30 deaths associated with the unidentified outbreak in DRC. Yday, the Africa CDC put it at 79. On Tuesday, Reuters estimated it was 143. How can the number of deaths go down? I explain the ins and outs of outbreak accounting caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/how-can-th...
Thank you for this post.
Very informative post on the mystery illness in the Congo.
In response to the national reports of #H5N1 in dairy cows, the USDA is launching a mandatory milk testing program in 6 states, with more to follow. http://spr.ly/63323QyLdU
This is very worrisome. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
This is what happens when the future secretary of HHS has had his brain partially eaten by a parasitic worm. Mark McAfee's raw milk products have been recalled several times recently due to bird flu contamination. He's been asked by RFK to apply to the FDA as a raw milk policy advisor.
It's worrying that no cause has been attributed yet and the mortality rate seems high for how isolated the area is. Not good at all.
Have a really bad feeling about this...
LOL, as a neuroscientist I love that the word of the year is 'Brain rot', but we should have saved it for 2025. With Trump destroying infectious diseases research and #H5N1 holding hands with #SarsCoV2 to infect the brain, what will be next year's metaphor? Brain fog? Or direct to 'Brain damage'?
I used to teach a course on this exact topic. Another reason why Kennedy's "shut down infectious disease research for 8 years" is so misguided. It's not a silo! Long COVID is just the most recent example that demonstrates the need to work together to understand, treat, & prevent.
What @realharryjsisson.bsky.social said, too: "Republicans elected a convicted felon as president and they suddenly think they have ANY room to be angry over President Biden pardoning Hunter Biden? Spare me the fake outrage and sit down, you complete and total hypocrites."